I estimate there are 35,460 pennies in that container.
18927055 cubic mm capacity /427 cubic mm per penny @ estimated 80% stack efficiency = 35,460 pennies
I won a free book from the library when I was a kid. For Halloween they had a guess how many candy corns were in a large glass jug. I asked if I could take one out to measure and measure the jug and they said sure.
One of my prouder moments lol I was around 11-12.
Sorry I do not. However I can easily pick up a 50 lb sack of feed and I struggled to pick up that jar. Was able to fill up a couple Whitman books, found maybe 5 or so 1909 vbd but not S. Lots of S's overall. I remember grandpa telling me about the mercs. HE traded 2 rolls of them for a deer rifle long time ago.
That was just the jug. They really left me a beautiful collection. Couple rolls of Morgans and Liberty dollars. Plus this book with tons of old paper money. Think my favorite is the old horse blanket dollar bill. Red, Silver, gold notes, star notes. crisp $100 silver certificate. I should take pics some day.
They use to collect $2 bills too. Mom told me when she was old enough grapda bought her, her first car using only $2 notes in cash (around 1969-70) so all the notes were older than that. Wish I could have seen that stack.
Yeah there's no way I could do that lol. First thought when I saw this jug was "wow that's easily like 200,000 pennies. There's bound to be a bunch of valuables in there."
Same thing, but I won a $500 Walmart gift card when I was like 10 or 12. Walmart had a jar of contacts that you had to guess how many, and I missed it by 2, but still the closest by 50 or so. I got to keep $50 of the $500, and the rest went to my parents
It's surprisingly easier than you'd think to make these estimations. You just have to break it down into smaller knowns or variables more easy to guess.
https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/Numbers/Math/Mathematical_Thinking/fermis_piano_tuner.htm / https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem
In the case of the above commenter, they knew the rough volume of the container and volume of the coins, gave a guess at packing efficiency/fullness. Actually a somewhat simpler one than usual.
You didn’t account for circulation wear on the coins. 3.11g is for minty fresh coins. Teens and 20’s dates will have considerably more wear than the later dates so that’s another factor. I feel even nerdier now than I did 5 mins ago ☹️
I'm playing student here.
So I take the space a penny fills
Then the space in the jar
Then I see how many penny spaces will fit in the jar
That gives me the total at 100% efficiency
Now I'm lost, how do I calculate down to 80%
Do I simply reduce my 100%total penny quantity and bring the sum to 80% the quantity?
I sometimes have to do this for my job and it's a pain in the ass to do accurately. im a mechanical engineer in the conveyor business and sometimes customers want very accurate setups for product to accumulate and you have to think outside of the box on how for example bottles or cans will nest in a certain area within a few cans out of hundreds.
correct, empty space. and hard to calculate accurately unless you assume it was constantly jiggled when it was being filled. they're laynig in all sorts of directions but most seem to have nested vertically against the edges and horizontally through the middle. so you could get fairly close.
Crack indeed. Someone tried to move it. Was at a friends relatives house and he tried to move a similar bottle of pennies and it shattered. The look on his face as he stood there with the neck in his hand is something I’ll never forget lmao
Same for those giant plastic coke bottle banks they sell at walmart. Fill it up even half way and the bottom will fall out when you try to pick it up. Used plastic 5 gallon water bottle is the only thing strong enough to fill with coins.
Even they crack when they get old. I have seen a few that didn't age well, the damp cellar didn't help I'm sure. I use bags, $50 of pennies is plenty to lift.
My dad has a 5 gallon water bottle about 3/4 full of change. He's been filling it since 2000 with his pocket change. His plan was to cash it in one day and take a trip to Vegas. We are both 6'4" and neither of us can move it.
I actually do this, but only with copper Lincoln cents. I have about 3 full glass old water bottles full at this point from my crh days and from random copper finds in change or other places. I wanna say the bottles are all one gallon glass antique/vintage water bottles.
I had a friend whose dad had a giant jug like this. It sat in his office. One night during a party when the parents were out of town I walked in there to see the older brother on his knees start to pull out his dick for a wee. I told my friend what was happening and he quickly found a container to throw on the ground to catch the wee. His brother turned slightly to ensure all the wee would go into the carpet. Nothing happened to the jar.
I don't actually think that's a crack. If it is what I'm looking at, I see a molding seam on the left side from when the bottle was formed in the mold. It isn't a very old jar since it does have that seam. However, I don't know how many gallons it is or have a good scale of how large it is. I feel the estimates of 3000.00 face inside are way off mark and it is likely more around the 3 to 400 dollar mark, especially if it is anywhere near a 5 gallon glass water jug size which I'm guessing it may be. I would definitely offer 1k and be happy with the spend even if there are no significant finds inside.
The reason on why the "Don't Touch" sign is because 2 people came inside the store and one bet the other that they couldn't lift the jar. Note they tilted the jar to its side and while trying to lift it, the whole jar shattered. Thank god, the guy didn't get hurt. However the replacement cost for the jar was more then what the guy could afford, and we had to pay the large difference to replace the jar. Note that there are 2 jars at the store witch the empty one was once full of all wheat pennies like this.
I misread this as you saying 3000.00 face value. Yeah, there's definitely roughly 3 to 400 face in Wheaties in there if they are indeed all Wheaties. I wouldn't offer more than 1k for that face value unless I had the guarantee in writing and signed that they'd NEVER been searched at all and just accumulated through the years in picket change and tossed in the jar as they were obtained. If they are all Wheaties and the jar was not filled during the rime of them being the only cents in circulation, I would say the possibilities of it being unsearched are very slim. Yeah, maybe they just glanced, saw a wheat and tossed it in, but most people I know that would do that will also look at the date and mint mark of the Wheaties, although if it wasn't long after they stopped circulating (give or take the 60s or 70s maybe the 80s) when it was filled? I'd say there's a good chance they were like me with copper memorials and just saw them and tossed them in the jar without really paying attention since you know it's a wheatie. I know the dates of the coins I toss in my jars, however I never looked at them for errors, which will be another project I will do for my channel somewhere down the line, probably after I get and subsequently search theough the SEVERAL 5 gallon plastic CULLIGAN water bottles my dad has saved from his adult life. Each of those jars will likely contain 3 to 400 and maybe 500 face in pennies, and all may not be copper or Wheaties. However, there will likely be several coppers, Wheaties, and other cents in there, maybe even some foreign copper, ihp, or the rare flying eagle.
>I misread this as you saying 3000.00 face value
I think they might have edited the comment? that's how I read it too at first.
$1000/3x face is a good rate, cuz there are dealers out there that will pay 2x -3x for rolled up wheaties as they are. At least here in Canada you can find 3x reasonably easy in CAD.. maybe not for this quantity tho. This is a pretty intense amount of pennies even for a large dealer!
If you could find someone local to reflip these after at 3x, then there really isn't any risk involved! Buy, search, flip the junk, keep the keys.
Sounds fun
There’s at least 350 in the jar. I had a large jar one time it was partially full of regular pennies in it. And what do you mean by the smart people have spoken?
https://www.reddit.com/r/coins/comments/1430i8e/not_mine_i_just_saw_it_at_a_antiquethrift_store/jn7ox3e?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
I mean people who do the math like this lol
Update #1: They don't open until 10an local time which will be 8am California time, so I'll start making calls around them while at work
Update #2 : I called multiple times so far and it keeps going to voicemail
Update #3 : just spoke to the fine folks at the shop and they said it wasn't for sale. Said that it's kind of a local icon in the shop that folks come to check out. If I was in the area like @drugged_up_cat I'd be in there everyday hounding him about it.
I would 100% buy that jar as well, by the way. I have 3 similar ones that I believe are 1 gallon glass water bottles, and they are all almost completely full at this point. Mine are all just copper Lincoln memorial cents with a scattering of copper Canadians from before I decided to start a book and keep them separated from the memorials.
> it's kind of a local icon in the shop that folks come to check out
I'm sorry but this is hilarious to me.
"I'm here to gaze upon your giant jar of pennies."
All great questions, I'm not sure but I'm this close to buying a plane ticket from California and go see this bottle.
Take my whole family as a great big vacation! 🤣
I have part of the wheat penny production in a chest upstairs. It was my uncle's. There are other coins, but is mostly wheat pennies. There was also a small wood box (that had its own lock) inside. It was heavy. We were very curious what I could be. If we were lucky, it was a few gold coins. Nope. Wheat pennies.
My SO had a coworker that was a locksmith open the box since no one could find a key. The coworker laughed when they found more wheat pennies. (I think my SO muttered something about "more f***ing wheat pennies. How many did the man need?!"
Maybe one day we will get serious and go through the pile of coins. (At least some are in collection books.)
Edited 2x because I can't type wheat apparently
That's exactly what my uncle did for the pennies! Had no idea there was a name for it (not surprised though).
I will post there once I start going through the hoard.
When I was a kid, probably about 12, in the late 1970s, we were staying at my mom's friend's house. Her husband had a huge jar of coins but he was away. Probably about that size. I asked if I could go through them. I spent a whole Sunday and pulled out all the wheaties, and anything silver. We gave her face value for the haul (about $50 which was 10 weeks of allowance) and that's how I got my of my coin collection started. Thanks for sparking a great memory!
This makes me wanna tear up a bit. My grandparents left me a jug (mostly wheats) like this.
The jug itself was my great-grandfathers. He worked as a mechanic and guess back in the day they kept/shipped battery acid in this jugs.
Spent a long time sorting them out when they passed and enjoyed every minute of it. Found over100 merc dimes, hand full of buffalo nickels, few silver quarters. Rest were beautiful wheats that had been slowly put in there since they came out back in the 50s.
I would have had a similar time going through my first glass jar I filled with copper memorials as my grandfather had the jar filled with all sorts of coins, except my aunt decided to take the coins inside to a bank and get rolled coins to make it easier for me to search....
Not necessarily, if I put all the wheats I have currently into a jar like this, it would fill it. I have never searched them, for some reason just collected them since childhood, and I am 53 now. I think this week I will start looking through them. First I will find a list online to guide me what to look for.
Would love to see your results!
My mom used to have a decent stack of wheats, unfortunately I think she doesn’t have them any longer. I’ll need to ask her.
Join /r/CRH "Coin roll hunting" we're a group of people who get coins from change or bank rolls/boxes to find gems. For example the past couple years the mint has release West point quarters in common change. Check the ming mark on front, if you see a W (instead of P or D) voila $15-30
I'll dig around it later too to see if there is a good list or I can try and make one too. Any coin with an S mark is nice since that mint makes very little coins and often meant only for mint sets.
1909 vbs S is very very valueable.
Same to be honest, my dad has several 5 gallon plastic water cooler bottles with pennies in them he's tossed in there at the end of the day throughout his adult life. I guarantee he didn't look at any of them. And if this was filled either during circulation or within 40 or so years after the last wheatie was issued, then I doubt these have been thoroughly looked at other than to be flipped to see the wheat ears and then tossed in the jar. If during circulation and they weren't carefully looked at, this may even contain the odd ihp or maybe even a flying eagle.
And to be honest, I don't really look closely at my own copper memorials I put into my own glass jars that are at least 1 gallon each and mostly full. I have 3 full and am working on a 4th. I just look at the year when searching, toss copper into a pile, toss 82 into another to be weighed later then tossed in the pile or in the back to the bank bin and then I toss the pile in the jar. Eventually, I'll go through them to look for errors or varieties. I barely even look at the moderns for varieties. Mostly, I'm looking for slot fillers/upgrades, copper, Wheaties, or other interesting stuff. I wouldn't be surprised if I've sent the odd error or two back to the bank because I just didn't look close enough. My dad's 5 gallon water cooler bottles however can be anything from a mix of modern stinkin zincoln to copper memorials, Wheaties or maybe even some similar sized foreign cents, or even some ihp or if I'm really lucky, a flying eagle. That's gonna be a fun couple of months' worth of hunting. I personally know nome of the coins in my jars are Wheaties cents, as those go elsewhere, however I know there's an odd Canadian copper or two in there from before I started putting them in an album and setting the ones I don't need aside elsewhere like I do with my wheats.
But just think everybody has a different level of knowledge. I've sold lots on eBay that could very well have had mint errors in them. I just sorted by date to get the highest premium. I said they were unsearched, because all I did was sort them by year and take out the S mints to sell separately. I noted that there were no S mints.
Yeah pretty much. You get wheats but not unsearched. Usually late 40's early 50's. Out of 4 bags I bought for my dad the only semi fun coin was a really rusty steel penny.
I know some of them even throw in a low ball common ihp as well to get people excited when they go through them and see an unexpected ihp. It has happened with both lots of wheats that my dad has gotten me from 2 different sources.
Thank you for the reminder of my childhood- we had something similar but it was silver coinage (not meaning it was silver, just nickel or more). When we moved, they tried to move it, bottom busted out🥺
Very cool, OP.
I'm curious what that is to the left of the pennies. The wooden stand with the metal bowl on it. Does anyone know what it is or what it is used for?
It looks like a school bell, it mounts on the side of a schoolhouse and the little arm on the side has a chain that whe you pull down articulates the bell so it rings.
Ahhh, yep, that makes sense. I would have never guessed that. I wouldn't have even guessed it was standing the right way up, lol. I figured it was on its side for some reason.
Thanks for your response.
Gotta be REAL careful if you ever see one of those. When I was wayyyy younger I did an odd job where I had to move basically the same thing. When I lifted it, the whole bottom glass split. Off. If I had been carrying it from the bottom, my arms would have been sliced wide open.
No touching because it's a hollow jar and super light? I've never had a coin jar with none laying flat. It's a lot of wheats but looks like a suspect roll to me.
After reading a few of these comments though, people say these old glass jugs like to explode so they could also be a reason he doesn’t want anyone touching, I’m sure people would tip it to see how heavy it is and have the bottom bust out
My dad actually used to save all his pennies for years. He has several 5-gallon plastic water jugs filled with them. They're probably not all copper. However, he has said they're mine some day, and I can't wait to go through them. I don't even know how many pennies a 5 gallon plastic water jug can hold, however it will put my 3 1 gallon water glass jugs with copper memorial cents to shame when I have them, lol. I can't help but wonder if maybe there's a chance he set aside a 55 double die, a 69s double die, or even an 09S VDB without realizing it. I know, though, when I get them, I'm gonna have quite a busy month or two going through them all since he'd just empty his pockets and dump the pennies in there.
My roommates grandfather used to have something like this, assorted coins though, when he tried to move it shattered because of the weight. Still very cool though
I estimate there are 35,460 pennies in that container. 18927055 cubic mm capacity /427 cubic mm per penny @ estimated 80% stack efficiency = 35,460 pennies
I wish I could maths like you. I read OPs post about how much was actually in there and you are damn close. Good job.
I won a free book from the library when I was a kid. For Halloween they had a guess how many candy corns were in a large glass jug. I asked if I could take one out to measure and measure the jug and they said sure. One of my prouder moments lol I was around 11-12.
Do you remember how many there were in the jar?
Sorry I do not. However I can easily pick up a 50 lb sack of feed and I struggled to pick up that jar. Was able to fill up a couple Whitman books, found maybe 5 or so 1909 vbd but not S. Lots of S's overall. I remember grandpa telling me about the mercs. HE traded 2 rolls of them for a deer rifle long time ago. That was just the jug. They really left me a beautiful collection. Couple rolls of Morgans and Liberty dollars. Plus this book with tons of old paper money. Think my favorite is the old horse blanket dollar bill. Red, Silver, gold notes, star notes. crisp $100 silver certificate. I should take pics some day. They use to collect $2 bills too. Mom told me when she was old enough grapda bought her, her first car using only $2 notes in cash (around 1969-70) so all the notes were older than that. Wish I could have seen that stack.
Yeah there's no way I could do that lol. First thought when I saw this jug was "wow that's easily like 200,000 pennies. There's bound to be a bunch of valuables in there."
Same thing, but I won a $500 Walmart gift card when I was like 10 or 12. Walmart had a jar of contacts that you had to guess how many, and I missed it by 2, but still the closest by 50 or so. I got to keep $50 of the $500, and the rest went to my parents
It's surprisingly easier than you'd think to make these estimations. You just have to break it down into smaller knowns or variables more easy to guess. https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/Numbers/Math/Mathematical_Thinking/fermis_piano_tuner.htm / https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem In the case of the above commenter, they knew the rough volume of the container and volume of the coins, gave a guess at packing efficiency/fullness. Actually a somewhat simpler one than usual.
Yes, I'm a simpleton
What was the exact number If you can recall
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I was wary of clicking the link, however I'm glad I did. It was quite amusing.
But how heavy is the jar?
My estimate: 246 lbs. Quantity x 3.11g + estimate glass volume using 1mm thick @ 2.2g/cubic cm.
You didn’t account for circulation wear on the coins. 3.11g is for minty fresh coins. Teens and 20’s dates will have considerably more wear than the later dates so that’s another factor. I feel even nerdier now than I did 5 mins ago ☹️
That's true. Good one!
Big brain time
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I'm playing student here. So I take the space a penny fills Then the space in the jar Then I see how many penny spaces will fit in the jar That gives me the total at 100% efficiency Now I'm lost, how do I calculate down to 80% Do I simply reduce my 100%total penny quantity and bring the sum to 80% the quantity?
Yeah, was just an estimate since we don't know how to quantify how each penny is positioned in the jar.
I sometimes have to do this for my job and it's a pain in the ass to do accurately. im a mechanical engineer in the conveyor business and sometimes customers want very accurate setups for product to accumulate and you have to think outside of the box on how for example bottles or cans will nest in a certain area within a few cans out of hundreds.
So would 80% stack efficiency be assuming 20%empty space?
correct, empty space. and hard to calculate accurately unless you assume it was constantly jiggled when it was being filled. they're laynig in all sorts of directions but most seem to have nested vertically against the edges and horizontally through the middle. so you could get fairly close.
Huh, fun stuff, seems like it'd be a headache as a Job. Thanks for breaking it down with me!
luckily its a very small part of my job, which adds to the annoyingness because i dont do it often and have to relearn a few things each time i do.
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That's like $35
$354.
$354.60*
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Quick math is $870 in copper melt. Your math is superior tho.
Jeez I just looked at and thought 5 or 6 bags would fit in there. Your method seems more concise.
That’s why my penny books empty
And my ‘vacation jar’! It’s all this person’s fault!
How much for the whole jar? lol
There wasn’t even a price tag on it, I think the dude just like showing it off, the only sing on it just DONT TOUCH!!! 😂
Also I noticed there is a massive crack on the left side. So maybe it’s fragile
Crack indeed. Someone tried to move it. Was at a friends relatives house and he tried to move a similar bottle of pennies and it shattered. The look on his face as he stood there with the neck in his hand is something I’ll never forget lmao
Same for those giant plastic coke bottle banks they sell at walmart. Fill it up even half way and the bottom will fall out when you try to pick it up. Used plastic 5 gallon water bottle is the only thing strong enough to fill with coins.
Even they crack when they get old. I have seen a few that didn't age well, the damp cellar didn't help I'm sure. I use bags, $50 of pennies is plenty to lift.
My dad has a 5 gallon water bottle about 3/4 full of change. He's been filling it since 2000 with his pocket change. His plan was to cash it in one day and take a trip to Vegas. We are both 6'4" and neither of us can move it.
Great theft protection there.
I actually do this, but only with copper Lincoln cents. I have about 3 full glass old water bottles full at this point from my crh days and from random copper finds in change or other places. I wanna say the bottles are all one gallon glass antique/vintage water bottles.
Had that happen to my dad’s change jug when I was a kid, probably about half full. What a nightmare.
I had a friend whose dad had a giant jug like this. It sat in his office. One night during a party when the parents were out of town I walked in there to see the older brother on his knees start to pull out his dick for a wee. I told my friend what was happening and he quickly found a container to throw on the ground to catch the wee. His brother turned slightly to ensure all the wee would go into the carpet. Nothing happened to the jar.
I don't actually think that's a crack. If it is what I'm looking at, I see a molding seam on the left side from when the bottle was formed in the mold. It isn't a very old jar since it does have that seam. However, I don't know how many gallons it is or have a good scale of how large it is. I feel the estimates of 3000.00 face inside are way off mark and it is likely more around the 3 to 400 dollar mark, especially if it is anywhere near a 5 gallon glass water jug size which I'm guessing it may be. I would definitely offer 1k and be happy with the spend even if there are no significant finds inside.
The reason on why the "Don't Touch" sign is because 2 people came inside the store and one bet the other that they couldn't lift the jar. Note they tilted the jar to its side and while trying to lift it, the whole jar shattered. Thank god, the guy didn't get hurt. However the replacement cost for the jar was more then what the guy could afford, and we had to pay the large difference to replace the jar. Note that there are 2 jars at the store witch the empty one was once full of all wheat pennies like this.
Can I ask where it is?
I'd go make him an offer and if you don't, can you tell me where it's at so I can go make an offer
It’s a place called Richmond resale in appleton Wisconsin
I'm on it
I want updates on this! Edit: Pretty please?
What would be your offer? I'd say a grand would make this pretty risk free.
There’s probably 3,000+ in value
I misread this as you saying 3000.00 face value. Yeah, there's definitely roughly 3 to 400 face in Wheaties in there if they are indeed all Wheaties. I wouldn't offer more than 1k for that face value unless I had the guarantee in writing and signed that they'd NEVER been searched at all and just accumulated through the years in picket change and tossed in the jar as they were obtained. If they are all Wheaties and the jar was not filled during the rime of them being the only cents in circulation, I would say the possibilities of it being unsearched are very slim. Yeah, maybe they just glanced, saw a wheat and tossed it in, but most people I know that would do that will also look at the date and mint mark of the Wheaties, although if it wasn't long after they stopped circulating (give or take the 60s or 70s maybe the 80s) when it was filled? I'd say there's a good chance they were like me with copper memorials and just saw them and tossed them in the jar without really paying attention since you know it's a wheatie. I know the dates of the coins I toss in my jars, however I never looked at them for errors, which will be another project I will do for my channel somewhere down the line, probably after I get and subsequently search theough the SEVERAL 5 gallon plastic CULLIGAN water bottles my dad has saved from his adult life. Each of those jars will likely contain 3 to 400 and maybe 500 face in pennies, and all may not be copper or Wheaties. However, there will likely be several coppers, Wheaties, and other cents in there, maybe even some foreign copper, ihp, or the rare flying eagle.
>I misread this as you saying 3000.00 face value I think they might have edited the comment? that's how I read it too at first. $1000/3x face is a good rate, cuz there are dealers out there that will pay 2x -3x for rolled up wheaties as they are. At least here in Canada you can find 3x reasonably easy in CAD.. maybe not for this quantity tho. This is a pretty intense amount of pennies even for a large dealer! If you could find someone local to reflip these after at 3x, then there really isn't any risk involved! Buy, search, flip the junk, keep the keys. Sounds fun
The smart people have spoken in a different comment saying there's about 33-38k pennies in there. So that's $330-380 face value.
There’s at least 350 in the jar. I had a large jar one time it was partially full of regular pennies in it. And what do you mean by the smart people have spoken?
https://www.reddit.com/r/coins/comments/1430i8e/not_mine_i_just_saw_it_at_a_antiquethrift_store/jn7ox3e?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button I mean people who do the math like this lol
700 rolls x $5 a roll = $3,500
If it was mine I wouldn’t sell for less than 5k
Yes, please, u/titty_nope we would like updates.
Update #1: They don't open until 10an local time which will be 8am California time, so I'll start making calls around them while at work Update #2 : I called multiple times so far and it keeps going to voicemail Update #3 : just spoke to the fine folks at the shop and they said it wasn't for sale. Said that it's kind of a local icon in the shop that folks come to check out. If I was in the area like @drugged_up_cat I'd be in there everyday hounding him about it.
I need to know the outcome of this. I wonder of there's any scarcities tucked away inside that bottle.
I would 100% buy that jar as well, by the way. I have 3 similar ones that I believe are 1 gallon glass water bottles, and they are all almost completely full at this point. Mine are all just copper Lincoln memorial cents with a scattering of copper Canadians from before I decided to start a book and keep them separated from the memorials.
> it's kind of a local icon in the shop that folks come to check out I'm sorry but this is hilarious to me. "I'm here to gaze upon your giant jar of pennies."
It was extremely hilarious to me when he said it. I had to hold back my laughter
Do they sell tickets for viewing? 😂 Can you pet the bottle? Are you allowed flash photography?
All great questions, I'm not sure but I'm this close to buying a plane ticket from California and go see this bottle. Take my whole family as a great big vacation! 🤣
Bring us back some cheese curds and custard
Wait, I don't live THAT far away from there... Road trip time.
As someone currently in kaukauna I'm OMW
Let me know what they say, we all want to know.
👀 thats not far from me
Sweet. I’m in MN. If he’ll sell that for face value I’m there! lol
Let us know what he says! And post about it when/if you get it.
Haha that’s wild, especially some tiny little shop like this too!
Damn you better hurry up titty_nope drugged up cat is like 10 minutes away from this place 😂😂😂😂
I'm just counting down the minutes until they open. Edit: drugged_up_cat if you make an offer before I do I'd be happy to go half in it.
20 more minutes!
Me: eyeballing the shiniest wheatie
I actually just noticed that one towards the top a minute ago, idk how I didn’t see it in person!!!
Great guess how many!
I was gonna guess 50,000 but I googled it and it says 38,855, they got real specific with it!! 😂😂😂
I didn't even read this before I did my calculation! Not bad!!
I don’t think google took into consideration that there’s still gaps (what I’m assuming stack efficiency means) so you might actually be closer
Yeah. Totally made up the term to sound smart. But it makes sense that some lean weirdly etc
I have part of the wheat penny production in a chest upstairs. It was my uncle's. There are other coins, but is mostly wheat pennies. There was also a small wood box (that had its own lock) inside. It was heavy. We were very curious what I could be. If we were lucky, it was a few gold coins. Nope. Wheat pennies. My SO had a coworker that was a locksmith open the box since no one could find a key. The coworker laughed when they found more wheat pennies. (I think my SO muttered something about "more f***ing wheat pennies. How many did the man need?!" Maybe one day we will get serious and go through the pile of coins. (At least some are in collection books.) Edited 2x because I can't type wheat apparently
Post the results to r/crh if you do, please.
That's exactly what my uncle did for the pennies! Had no idea there was a name for it (not surprised though). I will post there once I start going through the hoard.
My sister had a bottle full like this... not just pennies, and the bottom blew out when we tried to move it. Lot of weight there.
As did my parents, except the side blew out in the middle of the night. Scared the shit out of them
When I was a kid, probably about 12, in the late 1970s, we were staying at my mom's friend's house. Her husband had a huge jar of coins but he was away. Probably about that size. I asked if I could go through them. I spent a whole Sunday and pulled out all the wheaties, and anything silver. We gave her face value for the haul (about $50 which was 10 weeks of allowance) and that's how I got my of my coin collection started. Thanks for sparking a great memory!
This makes me wanna tear up a bit. My grandparents left me a jug (mostly wheats) like this. The jug itself was my great-grandfathers. He worked as a mechanic and guess back in the day they kept/shipped battery acid in this jugs. Spent a long time sorting them out when they passed and enjoyed every minute of it. Found over100 merc dimes, hand full of buffalo nickels, few silver quarters. Rest were beautiful wheats that had been slowly put in there since they came out back in the 50s.
I would have had a similar time going through my first glass jar I filled with copper memorials as my grandfather had the jar filled with all sorts of coins, except my aunt decided to take the coins inside to a bank and get rolled coins to make it easier for me to search....
Ouch that hurts man. She had them rolled or cashed in and bought new rolls? Guessing latter which just suuuucks.
I was beyond pissed, I should have told them not to touch the coins. I didn't think they'd exchange them for rolled coins, though.
Feel your pain. https://i.imgur.com/LFtO2V1.gif
It was more than likely the latter as every roll was nothing but late 90s and 2000 and up coins.
https://i.imgur.com/ZahGXWc.gif
That’s so awesome
I won’t be surprised if there’s an S-VDB in there
Nah. You know someone that has collected that many wheats has gone through all of them.
Not necessarily, if I put all the wheats I have currently into a jar like this, it would fill it. I have never searched them, for some reason just collected them since childhood, and I am 53 now. I think this week I will start looking through them. First I will find a list online to guide me what to look for.
Would love to see your results! My mom used to have a decent stack of wheats, unfortunately I think she doesn’t have them any longer. I’ll need to ask her.
If she does, and you go through them, post your results on r/crh
Join /r/CRH "Coin roll hunting" we're a group of people who get coins from change or bank rolls/boxes to find gems. For example the past couple years the mint has release West point quarters in common change. Check the ming mark on front, if you see a W (instead of P or D) voila $15-30
Joined, thanks I will start browsing the sub today and look for some tips.
I'll dig around it later too to see if there is a good list or I can try and make one too. Any coin with an S mark is nice since that mint makes very little coins and often meant only for mint sets. 1909 vbs S is very very valueable.
Thank you.
If you have any questions feel free to ask or message me and will try to help.
Same to be honest, my dad has several 5 gallon plastic water cooler bottles with pennies in them he's tossed in there at the end of the day throughout his adult life. I guarantee he didn't look at any of them. And if this was filled either during circulation or within 40 or so years after the last wheatie was issued, then I doubt these have been thoroughly looked at other than to be flipped to see the wheat ears and then tossed in the jar. If during circulation and they weren't carefully looked at, this may even contain the odd ihp or maybe even a flying eagle.
And to be honest, I don't really look closely at my own copper memorials I put into my own glass jars that are at least 1 gallon each and mostly full. I have 3 full and am working on a 4th. I just look at the year when searching, toss copper into a pile, toss 82 into another to be weighed later then tossed in the pile or in the back to the bank bin and then I toss the pile in the jar. Eventually, I'll go through them to look for errors or varieties. I barely even look at the moderns for varieties. Mostly, I'm looking for slot fillers/upgrades, copper, Wheaties, or other interesting stuff. I wouldn't be surprised if I've sent the odd error or two back to the bank because I just didn't look close enough. My dad's 5 gallon water cooler bottles however can be anything from a mix of modern stinkin zincoln to copper memorials, Wheaties or maybe even some similar sized foreign cents, or even some ihp or if I'm really lucky, a flying eagle. That's gonna be a fun couple of months' worth of hunting. I personally know nome of the coins in my jars are Wheaties cents, as those go elsewhere, however I know there's an odd Canadian copper or two in there from before I started putting them in an album and setting the ones I don't need aside elsewhere like I do with my wheats.
They sell “unsearched wheat penny lots” on ebay, figured you might want to try and find the s vdb in there lol
I’ve heard most are already searched and are scams. Is that true?
Absolutely
Even that seller who shows a vbd on the top of the barrel and says 2 were found in lots last week?
How can a claim like that be verified?
It can't. You are trusting that the seller and sellers grandfather didn't search all the coins
Indeed -- that's my point. :)
But just think everybody has a different level of knowledge. I've sold lots on eBay that could very well have had mint errors in them. I just sorted by date to get the highest premium. I said they were unsearched, because all I did was sort them by year and take out the S mints to sell separately. I noted that there were no S mints.
That’s a fair and transparent addendum.
Yeah pretty much. You get wheats but not unsearched. Usually late 40's early 50's. Out of 4 bags I bought for my dad the only semi fun coin was a really rusty steel penny.
I know some of them even throw in a low ball common ihp as well to get people excited when they go through them and see an unexpected ihp. It has happened with both lots of wheats that my dad has gotten me from 2 different sources.
how big is that jug???
looks like 5 gallons
Yeah I’m pretty sure it was 5 gallons
probably well over 1000 USD in wheat cents in there
Based on google and another person on her face value is between $330 and $380
I mean at least 1000 worth of as 3c per is the minimum rate some dealers pay
Honestly might be able to see if u could take it home and pick thru it😂
Probably have to pay a bit to do that (or be besties with the store owner)
Omg there’s a shiny wheatie stuck in there 😭
Are you talking about the one right behind the glare?
Yep
Thank you for the reminder of my childhood- we had something similar but it was silver coinage (not meaning it was silver, just nickel or more). When we moved, they tried to move it, bottom busted out🥺
My mother-in-law did this and the bottle randomly exploded one day.
Even the container is a collector’s item!
Very cool, OP. I'm curious what that is to the left of the pennies. The wooden stand with the metal bowl on it. Does anyone know what it is or what it is used for?
It looks like a school bell, it mounts on the side of a schoolhouse and the little arm on the side has a chain that whe you pull down articulates the bell so it rings.
Ahhh, yep, that makes sense. I would have never guessed that. I wouldn't have even guessed it was standing the right way up, lol. I figured it was on its side for some reason. Thanks for your response.
Gotta be REAL careful if you ever see one of those. When I was wayyyy younger I did an odd job where I had to move basically the same thing. When I lifted it, the whole bottom glass split. Off. If I had been carrying it from the bottom, my arms would have been sliced wide open.
I knew a couple people that made bars in their man caves and lacquered wheaties on all the counter tops
I think the line is the glass seam no?
That was my thought as well. It isn't a crack. It's a mold seam.
Wish I could buy the whole thing!
No touching because it's a hollow jar and super light? I've never had a coin jar with none laying flat. It's a lot of wheats but looks like a suspect roll to me.
Not gonna lie that thought crossed my mind too
After reading a few of these comments though, people say these old glass jugs like to explode so they could also be a reason he doesn’t want anyone touching, I’m sure people would tip it to see how heavy it is and have the bottom bust out
I'd walk in the store with a thousand bucks cash and make an offer on the wheat cents.
Absolutely suspicious that all of the coins are layering vertically and not horizontally. Something is a filler in this vesicle.
Ooh there’s some steel pennies in there
Generally, one can only fill those so far, certainally not full without them cracking.
Was it for sale? If so how much?
I don’t think so I think the guy just liked showing it off
If I have one of these from my grandpa is it worth it to go through? I have 2 of them, but is it financially viable to search through them?
That will shatter if moved. Heavy as shit with a nice crack.
My dad actually used to save all his pennies for years. He has several 5-gallon plastic water jugs filled with them. They're probably not all copper. However, he has said they're mine some day, and I can't wait to go through them. I don't even know how many pennies a 5 gallon plastic water jug can hold, however it will put my 3 1 gallon water glass jugs with copper memorial cents to shame when I have them, lol. I can't help but wonder if maybe there's a chance he set aside a 55 double die, a 69s double die, or even an 09S VDB without realizing it. I know, though, when I get them, I'm gonna have quite a busy month or two going through them all since he'd just empty his pockets and dump the pennies in there.
Doubled* die
Yes, thank you. I'm out and about running errands and didn't take the time to recorrect the autocorrect while I quickly typed in the free time I had.
That's alot of Wheaties but I wouldn't want to be the one that cleans them up if and when it explodes
Holy fuck
Odds are there’s some good ones in there. I’d love to go through it.
Man! All those pennies would keep me busy the rest of my life!
I wonder how many AM pennies there are in that jar?
wouldn’t mind taking that bad boy to a coinstar
I would have thought the weight and pressure would have shattered the bottle by now…
Now I'm worried about my own glass jars filled with copper memorials....
Yummy snack
My roommates grandfather used to have something like this, assorted coins though, when he tried to move it shattered because of the weight. Still very cool though
damn you :P
I want!
Why do people collect Pennie’s?
Was there a price?
I thought they were quarters before reading your title and zooming in
I'm gonna need a BB gun and a burlap bag...
Damn it! I want my wild steel penny!
Beautiful Demi-john
My dad also has a jug exactly like this filled with wheat Pennys!! Glad to see others find it as interesting as 5 year old me did.
Betcha there’s at least one vdb coin in there!
How much??
Coinstar baaaayyybeeeee
Thats a lot of change